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| BENEFICIARY 02 |
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Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology & Institute of Biomedical Engineering |
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| BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ORGANIZATION |
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Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine is an independent constituent part of the University of London. Rated as the world's ninth best university in the 2006 Times Higher Education Supplement University Rankings, Imperial College London is a science-based institution with a reputation for excellence in teaching and research that attracts students and staff of the highest international quality. Innovative research at the College explores the interface between science, medicine, engineering and management. Imperial’s research in surgical robotics has an established track record particularly in perceptual docking and dynamic active constraints. |
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| MAIN TASKS WITHIN THE PROJECT |
ICL will coordinate the development of the ARAKNES system console (WP8) with particular attention to the human machine interface and augmented reality visualization. In addition, ICL will participate in the experimental assessment of the console. |
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| PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE |
Gaze contingent robotic control, real-time 3D tissue deformation recovery for robotic assisted MIS, high-fidelity AR for robotic surgery, perceptual behavior (visual & haptic) in MIS, and smart instruments. |
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| CONTACT |
| Coming soon... |
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| PEOPLE |
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Prof. Sir Ara Darzi holds the Chair of Surgery at ICL and is also National Advisor in Surgery for the Department of Health. He sits on many innovation and modernization boards and panels within the NHS. He has been the Tutor in Minimal Access Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in England. He has been a Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and also conferred a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Prof Darzi is head of Division of Surgery, Anaesthetics and Intensive Care of IC School of Medicine and his department is focused on research in surgical technology including Minimal Invasive Therapy, Image Guided Surgery, Surgical Oncology, and Robotically Enhanced Surgery. The Department was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Excellence in Higher and Further Education in recognition for its achievements in pioneering new technologies to address training requirements for trainee surgeons, surgeons in post and other professionals. Professor Darzi has published widely in the field of minimally invasive therapy. He has co-authored over 200 peer reviewed publications and seven books in surgery. |
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Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang received PhD in Computer Science from ICL and has served as a senior and then principal scientist of the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Unit of the Royal Brompton Hospital prior to assuming his current full-time academic post. He is Director and Founder of the Royal Society/Wolfson Medical Image Computing Laboratory at Imperial and Chairman of the Imperial College Imaging Sciences Centre (ISC). He is holder of the Royal Society Research Merit Award in Medical Image Computing and has published over 200 original research articles including over 100 peer reviewed academic journal papers. His main research focus is on medical imaging, sensing and robotics. |
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Dr. Danail Stoyanov received the PhD degree in Medical Image Computing from Imperial College London for his work on soft-tissue 3D depth and motion recovery in robotic surgery. His main research interests are in computer vision, medical imaging and medical robotics. |
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Dr. Mike Loi-Wah Sun received the PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from the HK Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. He is working in Imperial college london, UK for ARAKNES project about Operating Console Design, Human-Machine Interface and Perceptual Docking Platform. His main research interests are in minimally invasive robot-assisted surgery, human-machine interface and medical robotics. |
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